could see she was getting better. she s actually improving until she gets a visit from michael swango. then she dies unexpectedly. there have been some warning signs, but they really didn t add up those things at the time. some doctor was poisoning people. this was a murder. after serving two years of his five-year sentence for poisoning his colleagues, dr. michael swango is released from centralia prison in august of 1987. after he got out, i didn t know whether he would be coming after for revenge or not. the news media outlets were somewhat concerned because we knew we were portraying him in a not good light. but i don t think the general public had any real concern, because he was not on anybody s radar. back then, he didn t have a 24-hour news cycle. this would have stayed a local story, and people outside that region would not know who he was. and he used that to his
illness but they didn t have any proof. the paramedics themselves started saying, you know, why is it it seems like any time you work with them, you get sick. you work with him, i get sick. it was apparent to them hey this guy is doing something to us. at that point i think there was no indication we were being poisoned. we just wanted to find out was going on. these paramedics set up a fake ambulance run so that they would have and opportunity to go through dr. swango s possessions at the headquarters without him there. i m working with swango. he sent us out on a fake call, 30 minute drive, enough time to go through his bag and find out what he s using. we want to catch him and we are looking for anything possible that we can use as evidence.
Dr. Michael Swango takes an oath to do no harm, but does just the opposite; suspicious illnesses and deaths follow the once-trusted physician-turned-killer.
pain. i never asked him what it was. and then i got the phone call that he had passed. we never even thought of having an autopsy. the problem was, those are complex cases that take a lot of time. and so there s a lot of things that had to be proven. and the time was ticking away. dr. michael swango is currently serving time in an oregon federal penitentiary for making false statements to get a job at a long island hospital. with good behavior, he ll be transferred to a halfway house. in order to build their case before swango was released from prison, investigators needed actual proof that the three veterans had been poisoned. so they had to ask the families if they had permission to exhume the bodies of their loved ones and test the tissue for toxins. i couldn t believe i was getting this phone call. they said they had reason to believe my father s death was